Somali Pirates. Four Americans dead. Now a Danish sailboat with seven aboard hijacked. How to deal with a bolder and more violent piracy.

French warship FS Nivose with Somali pirate skiffs off the Somali coast on Friday March 5, 2010. (AP /EU NAVFOR)

The pirates of Somalia just get bolder. Deep in the Indian Ocean now. Far off the Horn of Africa. All over the sea lanes that feed the vital Suez canal. They’re taking yachts. We all know of the four Americans who died in pirate country. Now it’s a Danish family, grabbed. They take oil tankers. Two million barrels of Kuwaiti crude worth $200 million in one attack last month. They’re holding maybe 800 sailors to ransom. Fifty vessels. And they’re killing.

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